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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

When I am booting my computer with Mandrake 9.1 it gets to the part where it says "bringing up interface eth0" and then it just kind of hangs for almost forever. Then it finally says OK and then boots up the rest of the way. The NIC is configured and I can ping the windows machine that is also on the network. I connect to the internet via my windows machine. Is there something I can try to speed up the eth0 interface during startup?

It sounds to me like your system is trying to update the card's ip address via DHCP, if you are directly connected to your gateway and there's no other devices between you and your gateway, then there's no reason not to use static ip addresses, go ahead and try a static ip address and see if that fixes the problem

Yeah I am using DHCP. If I can figure out how to do it without breaking something I will try setting it static. Some times it takes it about 2 seconds to configure eth0 but most of the time it is really slow.

Welcome to the forum, heritic^ and knelsky. And thanks for the replies.